The so-called America 250 celebration is currently underway, with our country marking the epic milestone in a variety of ways. A docuseries just dropped on Netflix called The American Experiment, for ...

Continuing his stubborn, aesthetically pathbreaking ways, Lars von Trier has produced, in “Dogville,” a masterpiece that is nearly unwatchable. The film, which showed in competition here in Cannes, ...

Danish director Lars von Trier has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth in the most offensive way possible, most recently at this year's Cannes film festival when he said he identified with Hitler ...

Into this disembodied shadow of a poor 1930s Rocky Mountain village bursts Grace (Nicole Kidman), who is on the run from gangsters. Tom Edison (Paul Bettany), a local would-be writer concerned with ...

"A hyper-intelligent child who is slightly disturbed, playing with dolls in a dollhouse, cutting their heads off with nail clippers." That's how actor Stellan Skarsgard describes his frequent director ...

Imagine the director as God. Lars von Trier does, or so it seems in "Dogville," his most recent judgment on the unworthiness of the human race. Filmed on a nearly bare stage bereft of walls -- a few ...

THE LOWDOWN: Heavily stylized allegory about moral hypocrisy in a mythical American town. I keep hearing the same response each time I mention the latest controversial movie by a certain ...

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"DOGVILLE" OPENS and closes with the sound of a pile driver. The first instance is a literal sound effect alluding to the construction of a prison not far from the titular Rocky Mountain hamlet in ...

The so-called America 250 celebration is currently underway, with our country marking the epic milestone in a variety of ways. And back in the early 2000s, a filmmaker from an entirely different ...